Kailash Satyarthi was in running for Nobel peace prize for over half a decade: Nobel Institute

Kailash Satyarthi was in running for Nobel peace prize for over half a decade: Nobel Institute

The Norwegian Nobel Institute has revealed that India's Kailash Satyarthi had been in the running for the coveted peace prize for over half a decade now.

In an exclusive interview to TOI, the director of the Nobel Institute who sifts through the original nominations to shortlist the final list of Nobel peace prize probables every year said that well over a dozen Indians were nominated for the coveted prize this year.